If you’re a Gaiam fan on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, or are a member of Gaia, you’ll recall that we recently asked for your input on how to make the best compost, best materials to use for composting, and suggestions on your favorite composters. Why, you may ask? Because we want to step up our selection of composting products to make it even better — and we want you to help us pick the next composter we should carry in our catalog.

Today we’re launching the first round of our Summer Compost-Off! Vote now for your favorite from four of the best composters you suggested, and you could be the lucky contestant who wins one of the composters below!

We’ll pit the top two finalists against each other in an epic head-to-head composting battle in our organic Gaiam Garden to find out which composter is the most efficient and boasts the best features.

Your votes will determine the composter most worthy for us to test and sell, and to help you choose, we’ll be posting video updates from our organic garden showing their progress (and composting prowess!). Don’t forget to sign up for newsletter updates when you vote, to see if you’ve won one of these composters!

Behold, the contenders:

The Bio-Orb

Green Cone

Worm Wigwam

Earthmaker

Comments

My vote goes for the Bio-Orb… It looks cool, and is probably something I would use more on a regular basis. Plus, I could probably train my dog to roll that thing around in the backyard to help me mix it up.

We have a bio-orb and it’s horrible! You cannot turn it once it is full because it’s too heavy. If you do manage to wrestle it up, the lid does not seal well and flops off, spilling your half composted stuff.

One very enthusiastic vote for the BIO ORB! One thing about compost in general is being sure that the unit can me turned, rolled or mixed as the process occurs. The ball like structure would make composting a fun activity for my young children. What a great way to keep kids active by rolling the compost ball, as well as helping our beautiful world and garden at the same time. Thanks, Jesi!

I vote for the Earthmaker. I have two composters – older models but similar to the earthmaker – and find that even with 2 people in the household and a small garden, I need somthing big to hold all the green and brown materials. Even so, the composter gets filled fast. the other 3 composters would never be big enough.

I voted for the Green Cone because I like that it self-regulates temperature through insulation and that you only have to empty it once a year. I live in town and don’t need to use a huge amount of compost on our small yard, but I do like to reduce my landfill impact by composting, so I think this would be the best fit for me. I hope I win one!

Thye Bio-Orb is-without a doubt- the best suitable for the task at hand. It would be much eaiser to handle, and move around in the garden without much physical effort. Even a small child can move it around for aeration purposes.
We’ve got a winner here!

The Bio-Orb is not recommended. It requires a lot of flat space to roll around, the lid is difficult to take off and put back on, and compost juice leaks out of the holes onto whoever is rolling in—I know maybe our compost technique isn’t ideal if we have juice, but that is because it is so hard to roll regularly in a sloping yard.

I looked up the composters at other sites to read personal experiences. I certainly do NOT want messy composting juice all over me as I roll a ball. People have said they are heavy and need a lot of space to roll. The worm unit is too expensive for a small family & people need to be careful to give worms the condition they need or else it is cruel to the worms. The cone doesn’t give usable compost, it just disposes of it.
So to get usable compost I voted for the Earthmaker.

Earthmaker! Since the Cone is already out of the running. I’m especially interested in a bin that can be placed on concrete in the courtyard of a NYC building and not need any other action. The green cone is interesting cause I like the camo green of it. Being in an urban environment I would like to hide the compost bin from curious prying hands full of fish heads or something.

Earthmaker! Since the Cone is already out of the running. I’m especially interested in a bin that can be placed on concrete in the courtyard of a NYC building and not need any other action. The green cone is interesting cause I like the camo green of it. Being in an urban environment I would like to hide the compost bin from curious prying hands full of fish heads or something.

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